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Unfortunately, the very best Dr. Doom can be found in the original Star Wars trilogy (episodes 4 - 6) under the guise of "Darth Vader." 
The next best was where he was set in an awful movie: Roger Corman's Fantastic Four.
My problem with the 21st century film version of Doom wasn't so much the actor, but what they did to the character - they took away his Latverian heritage (or barely mentioned it, making him for all intents & purposes to uninformed audiences an American). They took away the fact that he was a monarch and instead made him a smarmy businessman. They made him the "fifth" member of the Fantastic Four by changing his origin and making him part of the team that went on the historic spaceflight that gave them their powers. They gave Doom powers (his whole schtick was that he felt he rivaled Reed Richards with his brain alone and all he could create with it without having superpowers). But they gave him powers that were a combination of Colossus and Electro - thus diminishing the fact that Doom, under his armor, was a genius with no super powers.
i.e. they altered so many things essential to the character as to make him (aside from his mask) unrecognizable as the original Dr. Doom.
And, as you pointed out, we need not even mention Fant-4-stic's Doom - the whole movie is so far removed from anything FF to be recognized as anything other than some weird, counter, "ultimate" fan version of some splinter-universe, alternate reality, PC-revised, What-If, Elseworlds Fantastic Four.
The next best was where he was set in an awful movie: Roger Corman's Fantastic Four.
My problem with the 21st century film version of Doom wasn't so much the actor, but what they did to the character - they took away his Latverian heritage (or barely mentioned it, making him for all intents & purposes to uninformed audiences an American). They took away the fact that he was a monarch and instead made him a smarmy businessman. They made him the "fifth" member of the Fantastic Four by changing his origin and making him part of the team that went on the historic spaceflight that gave them their powers. They gave Doom powers (his whole schtick was that he felt he rivaled Reed Richards with his brain alone and all he could create with it without having superpowers). But they gave him powers that were a combination of Colossus and Electro - thus diminishing the fact that Doom, under his armor, was a genius with no super powers.
i.e. they altered so many things essential to the character as to make him (aside from his mask) unrecognizable as the original Dr. Doom.
And, as you pointed out, we need not even mention Fant-4-stic's Doom - the whole movie is so far removed from anything FF to be recognized as anything other than some weird, counter, "ultimate" fan version of some splinter-universe, alternate reality, PC-revised, What-If, Elseworlds Fantastic Four.
I had some hopes of him, Silver Surfer and Galactus being brought back to the MCU. After Thanos is kicked, the only 2 guys I'd be interested in seeing as villains are Galactus and Doom.
PS: do you remember a F4 comic that takes them to their beginnings but have them kill themselves? That story was sad and dark as hell. Specially because of Ben.
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